Wood Shop

New Stiles

Eddie Pszczolkowski and Victor Humphreys are rabbeting the glass space on eight stiles to be used in making new cupola windows for our Pennsylvania bobber caboose.  Everyone simply calls it the bobber since it is our only four wheel wood caboose, but for those purists the number is 476199

Done in Stile

By the end of the day Victor is checking over the completed set of stiles, for the rabbet and also for the tricky tenons which are now done.

Making Rings Around It

Eric Lorenz is sanding some wooden rings which will go on the porcelain ceiling light bases for the Cleveland Transit System 4223 PCC car.  Bill Peterson painted all eighteen almost as fast as Eric finished touching them up on the disk sander.

Tapped Out

The ceiling lights in the 4223 are held in place with square metal plates mounted above the ceiling panel.  The fixture, ceiling panel, and metal plate make up a sandwich which is fastened with a set of four screws.  The previously painted metal plates had Bill Peterson running a tap through all the holes to 'chase' the threads of any debris.

Seat Work

Fred Zimmerman is sanding down seat back sheet metal for Kansas City Public Service 755, another of our PCC cars.  This is a good example of one of the many ongoing projects that get chased indoors with winter weather.  Work has continued all through the summer, but I do not get over there for pics.

Signs of the Times

Bill Wulfert is restoring some hang on destination signs for our Chicago rapid transit cars.  Anyone got a steady hand?  We need to touch up some lettering where the porcelain has chipped away.

Sign Box

Tim Peters is fabricating new turn of the century metal roof mounted sign boxes for Chicago Rapid Transit 1024.  Two are needed and almost all of this has to be made from scratch, including cobbling parts for the mechanism for rolling the signs.

ELY

Buzz Morisette seems to be enjoying making new roof parts for the dining room in our private car, ELY.  This saw had been down for maintenance for a few weeks and now seems to working reliably.